Just like Ximian is going to license their Mono stuff under GPL *and* another license specifically for embedded usage, you might do the same. You should mail Miguel on this, he usually is most responsive.
1) You can go back - just unmount the ext3 fs and mount it with ext2. That's all. Oh, it's *designed* to do this. But yes, you get your fscks back. 2) There will be patches for 2.4, just like there are patches for the current 2.2 kernels (including 2.2.15preX). SCT also promised some RPMs with the RH6.2 kernel plus ext3 patches in it. Probably you want to check the linux-fsdevel mailinglist.
The article is quite useless to judge the intentions of what the agency should do. The reason is that no mention is made of what they want to do, and more importantly, Why. Do they want to set up an agency where people or companies can ask questions? Do they want to be a `public lawyer' which sues people/companies when people can't do it themselves? Do they want to indicate where there are omissions in laws? And which laws? Answers to the questions "Why" and "How" will indicate how usefull such an agency will be. And it will also show for who they are doing it -- for people living in the USA, or for everyone globally? For companies, for individuals or both? Or do they just want to map the current situation (which will be hard on itself)? My conclusion is that this article is a piece of propaganda, which mainly runs on sentiment (just look at the two examples). If they had given any good view on one of those examples, and said something *usefull* or new about it, I'd have more convinced that anything usefull will come out of this. For now, it seems just like some hyped babbling on a recent news item. -- Erik.
There are a few things to be said about IPv6. The main thing is that IPv6 is still Beta. That means that it is being implemented and tested along the way. Everyone on the 6bone and alike knows this. Everyone getting an IPv6 number is told that they have to hand id back sometime, because the hand-out schemes are also being tested. And yes, they have already changed those hand-out schemes and addresses at least once.
Software vendors and network hardware vendors do not fully support it -- some will give software to you as an addon. But they do not support it. If you learn from it, great, but if it breaks, oh well, it isn't yet meant for production purposes anyway.
I think one of the main reasons RedHat doesn't ship with IPv6 enabled is that it is not yet supported everywhere. For example if you use things like sockaddr_in in your programs, you're hosed because it is IPv4 specific. And there are a lot programs that are IPv4 specific (not to mention 4-byte-copies to duplicate addresses). And checking all networking programs takes a lot of time. Not to mention fixing them and getting maintainers to support IPv6.
So this summs up to three important points: 1) IPv6 is development stuff and quite uncommon. So don't expect your average program to work. 2) It can be used very well to learn things on IPv6 and networking in general. That's also why 6bone started. 3) Because IPv6 is still beta and things, it isn't yet in very-easy to use packages with your favourite OS flavour. Also don't expect ISPs to support it. The larger ISPs are on the 6bone and might offer you a tunnel endpoint, but it's experimental for them too. So they probably don't want to invest too much time in it.
Oh, and for the people who still want to try IPv6, there is a good HOWTO on setting up IPv6 for Linux. If it's to technical, you don't want to try it on any operating system. If it's peanuts, you should help test IPv6 and help porting more applications:-)
This is great if you like the mass stuff: here in.nl you have this station Sky Radio that plays the "guaranteed hits", things are or have been big hits. Great for mr. Everyman, but I like other stuff more, like pirate radio.
Now the problem with pirate radio is that the record industry doesn't get it's money. Sounds like the MP3 "war", not? Well, it's the same.
Now satellite radio -- just like terrestrial broadcast -- can't be "pirated" that easy, and the record industry will get more control again. Well, pirates will go internet too, but a mobile internet connection is still a bit further away. So, for some time I'll defenitly keep my radio.
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Just like Ximian is going to license their Mono stuff under GPL *and* another license specifically for embedded usage, you might do the same. You should mail Miguel on this, he usually is most responsive.
1) You can go back - just unmount the ext3 fs and mount it with ext2. That's all. Oh, it's *designed* to do this. But yes, you get your fscks back.
2) There will be patches for 2.4, just like there are patches for the current 2.2 kernels (including 2.2.15preX). SCT also promised some RPMs with the RH6.2 kernel plus ext3 patches in it. Probably you want to check the linux-fsdevel mailinglist.
The article is quite useless to judge the intentions of what the agency should do. The reason is that no mention is made of what they want to do, and more importantly, Why. Do they want to set up an agency where people or companies can ask questions? Do they want to be a `public lawyer' which sues people/companies when people can't do it themselves? Do they want to indicate where there are omissions in laws? And which laws? Answers to the questions "Why" and "How" will indicate how usefull such an agency will be. And it will also show for who they are doing it -- for people living in the USA, or for everyone globally? For companies, for individuals or both? Or do they just want to map the current situation (which will be hard on itself)? My conclusion is that this article is a piece of propaganda, which mainly runs on sentiment (just look at the two examples). If they had given any good view on one of those examples, and said something *usefull* or new about it, I'd have more convinced that anything usefull will come out of this. For now, it seems just like some hyped babbling on a recent news item. -- Erik.
There are a few things to be said about IPv6. The main thing is that IPv6 is still Beta. That means that it is being implemented and tested along the way. Everyone on the 6bone and alike knows this. Everyone getting an IPv6 number is told that they have to hand id back sometime, because the hand-out schemes are also being tested. And yes, they have already changed those hand-out schemes and addresses at least once.
:-)
Software vendors and network hardware vendors do not fully support it -- some will give software to you as an addon. But they do not support it. If you learn from it, great, but if it breaks, oh well, it isn't yet meant for production purposes anyway.
I think one of the main reasons RedHat doesn't ship with IPv6 enabled is that it is not yet supported everywhere. For example if you use things like sockaddr_in in your programs, you're hosed because it is IPv4 specific. And there are a lot programs that are IPv4 specific (not to mention 4-byte-copies to duplicate addresses). And checking all networking programs takes a lot of time. Not to mention fixing them and getting maintainers to support IPv6.
So this summs up to three important points:
1) IPv6 is development stuff and quite uncommon. So don't expect your average program to work.
2) It can be used very well to learn things on IPv6 and networking in general. That's also why 6bone started.
3) Because IPv6 is still beta and things, it isn't yet in very-easy to use packages with your favourite OS flavour. Also don't expect ISPs to support it. The larger ISPs are on the 6bone and might offer you a tunnel endpoint, but it's experimental for them too. So they probably don't want to invest too much time in it.
Oh, and for the people who still want to try IPv6, there is a good HOWTO on setting up IPv6 for Linux. If it's to technical, you don't want to try it on any operating system. If it's peanuts, you should help test IPv6 and help porting more applications
That's all for now, Erik.
This is great if you like the mass stuff: here in .nl you have this station Sky Radio that plays the "guaranteed hits", things are or have been big hits. Great for mr. Everyman, but I like other stuff more, like pirate radio.
Now the problem with pirate radio is that the record industry doesn't get it's money. Sounds like the MP3 "war", not? Well, it's the same.
Now satellite radio -- just like terrestrial broadcast -- can't be "pirated" that easy, and the record industry will get more control again. Well, pirates will go internet too, but a mobile internet connection is still a bit further away. So, for some time I'll defenitly keep my radio.
Erik.